The Mercer Island Fire Department has five new automated external defibrillators in service at no cost to the city because of a partnership that Deputy Fire Chief Doug McDonald formed with King County Emergency Medical Service. The total value of the contribution was $15,000.
Washington s first responders adapt as coronavirus cases rise
Since the start of the pandemic departments in the region has created and adapted plans to help keep the public and the force safe. Author: Kalie Greenberg Updated: 7:24 AM PST December 30, 2020
WOODINVILLE, Wash. Hospitals across western Washington are hoping to vaccinate more than 4,000 first responders by the end of the year. Departments have seen impacts to their forces and have had to adapt as first responders have been faced with coronavirus exposures and quarantines.
Woodinville Deputy Fire Chief Doug McDonald said departments across the region respond to 18 coronavirus-related calls per day.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, large numbers of first responders have needed to quarantine because of exposure to coronavirus. McDonald says they ve adapted to help limit that number.